Score

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Score 3 Map Size and Game Difficulty 4 Your Current Score

Overview

In many Civilization V games, one of the players will win the game by achieving one of the four possible victories: Domination, Science, Diplomacy, or Culture. However, if no one achieves one of these victories by the year 2050, the winner is determined by the surviving civilization's "score." And if someone does win outright before 2050, their score will determine their place on the "Hall of Fame" screen. Here's how scores are calculated.

ELIMINATION

If you are eliminated from the game, your score is zero. (Sorry.)

TIME TO VICTORY

If you achieve victory before 2050, you receive a "score multiplier." The earlier the victory, the better.

Score

You earn points for:

• The number of tiles in your borders (this is the least important factor in victory)
• The number of cities in your empire
• Your population
• The number of techs you possess
• The number of "future techs" you possess
• The number of Wonders you have constructed (this is the most important factor in determining victory)

Map Size and Game Difficulty

The size of the map that you play on will determine the Score each civ receives for tiles, number of cities, and population. The game difficulty you choose will determine the overall value of all points in the game: the higher the difficulty, the more everything's worth. (In other words, winning a crushing victory on the easiest level will probably be worth fewer points than eking out a marginal victory on the toughest level.)

Your Current Score

You can see everybody's current score on the Diplomacy Panel. If you hover the cursor over your score, you'll see where your points are coming from. (That doesn't work on other civs' scores, however.)

Note that the Score is not permanent: they can come and go across the course of a game. If you construct a Wonder, you then get the points for it. But if somebody else captures the city it's in, they get those points.